Herbert Henry Asquith

The Right Honourable Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, KG, PC (12 September 1852–15 February 1928) served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.

First Government, April 1908 – May 1915

• H.H. Asquith - Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons
• Lord Loreburn - Lord Chancellor
• Lord Tweedmouth - Lord President of the Council
• Lord Ripon - Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords
• David Lloyd George - Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Herbert John Gladstone - Secretary of State for the Home Department
• Sir Edward Grey - Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
• Lord Crewe - Secretary of State for the Colonies
• Richard Burdon Haldane - Secretary of State for War
• Lord Morley - Secretary of State for India
• Reginald McKenna - First Lord of the Admiralty
• Lord Wolverhampton - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• Winston Churchill - President of the Board of Trade
• Lord Pentland - Secretary for Scotland
• Augustine Birrell - Chief Secretary for Ireland
• John Burns - President of the Local Government Board
• Lord Carrington - President of the Board of Agriculture
• Walter Runciman - President of the Board of Education
• Sydney Buxton - Postmaster-General
• Lewis Harcourt - First Commissioner of Public Works

Changes

• September 1908 - Lord Wolverhampton succeeds Lord Tweedmouth as Lord President. Lord FitzMaurice succeeds Lord Wolverhampton as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
• October 1908 - Lord Crewe succeeds Lord Ripon as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords, while remaining also Colonial Secretary.
• June 1909 - Herbert Samuel succeeds Lord FitzMaurice at the Duchy of Lancaster.
• February 1910 - Winston Churchill succeeds Herbert Gladstone as Home Secretary. Sydney Buxton succeeds Churchill at the Board of Trade. Herbert Samuel succeeds Buxton as Postmaster-General. Joseph Pease succeeds Samuel as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
• June 1910 - Lord Beauchamp succeeds Lord Wolverhampton as Lord President.
• November 1910 - Lord Beauchamp succeeds Lewis Vernon Harcourt as First Commissioner of Public Works. Lord Morley succeeds Beauchamp as Lord President. Lord Crewe succeeds Morley as India Secretary, remaining also Lord Privy Seal. Lewis Harcourt succeeds Crewe as Colonial Secretary.
• October 1911 - Winston Churchill and Reginald McKenna switch offices, Churchill taking the Admiralty and McKenna the Home Office. Lord Carrington succeeds Lord Crewe as Lord Privy Seal. Crewe remains India Secretary. Walter Runciman succeeds Lord Carrington at the Board of Agriculture. Joseph Albert Pease succeeds Runciman at the Board of Education. Sir Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse succeeds Pease at the Duchy of Lancaster.
• February 1912 - Lord Crewe succeeds Lord Carrington as Lord Privy Seal, remaining also India Secretary. Thomas MacKinnon Wood succeeds Lord Pentland as Secretary for Scotland.
• June 1912 - The Attorney-General, Sir Rufus Isaacs, enters the Cabinet. Lord Haldane succeeds Lord Loreburn as Lord Chancellor. John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone succeeds Haldane as Secretary for War.
• 1913 - Sir John Allsebrooke Simon succeeds Sir Rufus Isaacs as Attorney-General.
• February, 1914 - John Burns succeeds Sydney Buxton as President of the Board of Trade. Herbert Samuel succeeds Burns at the Local Government Board. Sir Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse succeeds Samuel as Postmaster-General. Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman succeeds Hobhouse at the Duchy of Lancaster.
• March, 1914 - Asquith temporarily succeeds John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone as Secretary for War.
• August, 1914 - Lord Beauchamp succeeds Lord Morley as Lord President. Lord Emmott succeeds Beauchamp as First Commissioner of Public Works. Walter Runciman succeeds John Burns as President of the Board of Trade. Lord Lucas succeeds Runciman at the Board of Agriculture. Lord Kitchener succeeds Asquith as Secretary for War.
• January, 1915 - Edwin Samuel Montagu succeeds Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.